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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc ratcheted up the pressure on Hachette Book Group by proposing the publisher's authors get all the revenue from ebooks sold by the ecommerce company, as both sides try to resolve their bitter months-long contract dispute. Hachette rejected the offer on Tuesday. The fourth-largest U.S. book publisher, owned by France's Lagardere, instead asked Amazon to immediately withdraw "sanctions" on its books. Amazon's reply to Hachette's response: "We call baloney.

A Gresham man is charged with attempted murder after he fired on a group of people leaving a party Friday night, only to be shot himself by one of the victims, a military service member with a concealed carry permit, authorities said Sunday. The military member and three others were leaving a party Friday night in the 11700 block of South Union Avenue in West Pullman, Assistant State's Attorney Mary Hain said in Cook County Bond Court. One of the victims noticed a cup of liquor on top of her vehicle and asked attendees of a party next door who it belonged to, Hain said.

As a preview to this year's Children's Read & Write Program, which invites children to submit book reviews for possible publication, we asked several Chicago-area authors to tell us about favorite characters from childhood books. Here's what they said. Check back in the coming weeks for more authors and more characters. Lynne Raimondo Author of "Dante's Poison" Growing up, my three favorite characters were Bob Andrews, Pete Crenshaw and Jupiter Jones. Never heard of them?

GETTYSBURG Pa. - The author of the "The Star-Spangled Banner," which will ring out at thousands of baseball games and parades across the United States this Independence Day weekend, may have been tone deaf, according to a new biography. As the 200th anniversary of the famously difficult-to-sing anthem approaches, the book "What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life," by historian Marc Leepson reveals some little-known details about Key and his tribute to the "land of the free and the home of the brave.

ACCRA (Reuters) - West African countries and international health organizations adopted a fresh strategy on Thursday to fight the world's deadliest Ebola epidemic, which has killed hundreds of people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. At a two-day meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, officials committed to better surveillance to detect cases of the virus, enhance cross-border collaboration, better engagement with local communities and closer cooperation with the U.N. World Health Organization and other partners.

As the calendar moves into prime time for summer vacations, authorities are reminding residents of ways to prevent burglaries of empty homes. Officials with Vernon Hills suggested residents first stop all deliveries to the home. Police said piles of newspapers on the driveway or pieces of mail poking out of a mailbox are signs that a home is unoccupied. Police also suggest installing timers on lights to create the impression of occupancy. Adding a radio on a timer near a doorway also helps with the illusion.

Sociologist Alice Goffman is a 5-foot-2-inch white woman who grew up in privilege in Philadelphia's historic and affluent neighborhood of Center City. But over the course of six years - during part of her time as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and as a graduate student at Princeton University - Goffman lived in a low-income Philadelphia neighborhood about three miles from where she was raised. She was a young sociology student trying to understand the effect the criminal justice system had on the daily lives of the residents in a community that could easily have been in Chicago or any urban center where tough-on-crime policing tactics have constricted the lives of many young men, along with their families and friends.

A body pulled from Lake Michigan last night near Navy Pier is possibly a 27-year-old woman who went missing during a boating mishap May 31 that also claimed the life of a Chicago attorney, authorities said. An autopsy determined the woman, in her 20s, died of drowning from a boating accident, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Her death was ruled an accident and is a "possible companion" to the death of Ashley Haws, according to the medical examiner's office.

Chinese police shot dead 13 attackers in the country's restive Xinjiang region, after the group drove a car into a Kashgar police station and detonated an explosive device, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. Three police officers were "lightly wounded" in the attack on Saturday morning, but there were no casualties among the public, the news agency said citing the local government. "The gangsters drove a vehicle to ram the building of the public security bureau of Yecheng County in southern Xinjiang and set off explosives," it said.

Dan Jenkins may not be the greatest sportswriter of the 20th Century but he is indisputably in the same ballpark with such people as Grantland Rice, Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Jim Murray, Frank Deford and Gary Smith. There are others, of course, some of whom have written and continue to write for this and the other local newspaper. Many of these "teammates" are mentioned in Jenkins' latest book, a rollicking, nostalgic, sometimes cranky but always entertaining "His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir.